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Hi
I am a journalist, now making a research on content management. Made a research on some cms (open source) and read cmswatch, bla-bla-bla. I feel cms must separate data presentation from data itself and it must change both separately. What about website functionality (newslines, navigation...)? The question is: are there any ways to tune functionality like templates which determine onsite data presentation?
Has anyone come across this issue before or can help out, please?
Some of the best php programmers I know are working on WACT. The ModelViewController link has a detailed description of how MVC can be used to deal with some of the issues you have raised. As it happens, Jeff Moore, one of the WACT developers, has a blog here and has just made an entry about MVC. If you follow the links you'll find some other opinions about the usefulness of the pattern.
Thanks to all! links are very useful ) By the way, i also found a good resource on that -- http://www.xmlsapiens.org and http://www.sapid.sf.net. It reports xml specification and programming core of open source cms. What do you think of it?